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Thirty-Second Generation Earl Walter of Huntingdon Birth Date Unknown Thirty-second Generation Earl Walter of Huntingdon birth date unknown. He married twice. First, Gundred (Latin: Gundrada), He married Judith of Normandy 1070. They had the sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester. Second, to a following children: sister of Richard Gouet. 1. Judith (Alice) of Huntingdon31 . Earl William de Warrene and Gundred had the following 2. Matilda of Northumberland was born 1074. children: Walter died May 31, 1076 in St. Giles Hill. His body was 1. Reynald31 de Warrene. interred Crowland. 2. Editha de Warrene. 3. Earl William de Warrene was born 1071. Gundred died May 27, 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk. Her body was interred Lewes Priory, Chapter House. William was loyal to William II, and it was probably in early 1088 that he was created Earl of Surrey. He died June 24, 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex shortly afterwards of wounds he received while helping suppress the rebellion of 1088. His body was interred Lewes Priory, Chapter House. Hugh "The Great" of Vermandois de Crepi (King Henry I of France33 _) was born 1053. Called Magnus or the Great, he was a younger son of Henry I of France and Anne of Kiev and younger brother of Philip I. He was in his own right Count of Vermandois, but an ineffectual leader and soldier, great only in his boasting. Indeed, Steven Earl William de Warrene (Rodulf II33, Rodulf I34_) Runciman is certain that his nickname Magnus (greater or was born in Bellecombe, France 1055. He was one of the elder), applied to him by William of Tyre, is a copyist's error, Norman nobles who fought at the Battle of Hastings and and should be Minus (younger), referring to Hugh as became great landowners in England. younger brother of the King of France. He was a son of Rodulf II de Warenne and Emma and a He married Adelaide de Vermandois (Count grandnephew of duchess Gunnor, wife of duke Richard I of Herbert IV33_) the daughter of Herbert IV of Vermandois and Normandy. The de Warenne surname derives from the Adele of Valois. They had nine children: hamlet named Varenne located on the river Varenne, which flows through the territory William acquired in Upper 1. Count Raoul I of Vermandois Normandy in the region today called Bellencombre. 2. Henry, senior of Chaumont-en-Vexin, (d. 1130). As a young man, William played a prominent role in 3. Simon, Bishop of Noyon protecting the Norman realm of the future William the 4. Elizabeth de Vermandois. She married 1) Robert de Conqueror's from a major invasion by the King of France in Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester; 2) William de February 1054 at the Battle of Mortemer. After this battle Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey Roger de Mortemer forfeited most of his lands, and the 5. Matilde de Vermandois, married Raoul I of Beaugency duke gave them to William. 6. Constance de Vermandois, married Godefroy de la Ferte-Gaucher William was one of the nobles who advised duke William 7. Agnes de Vermandois, married Margrave Boniface del when the decision to invade England was being considered. Vasto. Mother of Adelaide del Vasto. He is said to have fought at Hastings, and afterwards 8. Beatrix de Vermandois, married Hugh III of Gournay- received the Rape of Lewes in Sussex, and subsequently en-Bray lands in twelve other shires. He built castles at Lewes 9. Emma de Vermandois (Sussex), Reigate (Surrey), Castle Acre (Norfolk) and Conisbrough in Yorkshire. By the time of the Domesday Adelaide died 1044. survey he was one of the wealthiest landholders in England with holdings in 12 counties. In early 1096 Hugh and Philip began discussing the First Crusade after news of the Council of Clermont reached He fought against rebels at the Isle of Ely in 1071 where he them in Paris. Although Philip could not participate, as he showed a special desire to hunt down Hereward the Wake had been excommunicated, Hugh was said to have been who had murdered his brother the year before. influenced to join the Crusade after an eclipse of the moon on February 11, 1096. 1 That summer Hugh's army left France for Italy, where they Count Stephen was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, would cross the Adriatic Sea into territory of the Byzantine often writing enthusiastic letters to Adela about the Empire, unlike the other Crusader armies who were crusade's progress. He returned home in 1098 during the travelling by land. On the way, many of the soldiers led by lengthy siege of Antioch, without fulfilling his crusading vow fellow Crusader Emicho joined Hugh's army after Emicho to forge a way to Jerusalem. He was pressured by Adela was defeated by the Hungarians, whose land he had been into making a second pilgrimage, and joined the minor pillaging. Hugh crossed the Adriatic from Bari in Southern crusade of 1101 in the company of others who had also Italy, but many of his ships were destroyed in a storm off the returned home prematurely. In 1102, Stephen was killed in Byzantine port of Dyrrhachium. the Battle of Ramla at the age of fifty-seven. Hugh and most of his army was rescued and escorted to Henry de Ferrieres (Engenulf33 de Ferriers, Henry34_) Constantinople, where they arrived in November of 1096. was a Norman soldier from a noble family who took part in Prior to his arrival, Hugh sent an arrogant, insulting letter to the conquest of England and is believed to have fought at Eastern Roman Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, according to the Battle of Hastings of 1066 and, in consequence, was the Emperor's biography by his daughter (the Alexiad), rewarded with much land in the subdued nation. demanding that Alexius meet with him. Henry became a major land holder and was granted 210 Alexius was already wary of the armies about to arrive, after manors throughout England and Wales, but notably in the unruly mob led by Peter the Hermit had passed through Derbyshire and Leicestershire, by King William for his earlier in the year. Alexius kept Hugh in custody in a conspicuous bravery and support at Hastings. monastery until Hugh swore an oath of vassalage to him. He first served William I as castellan of Stafford, and in After the Crusaders had successfully made their way across about 1066 or 1067 he was granted the lands in Berkshire Seljuk territory and, in 1098, captured Antioch, Hugh was and Wiltshire of Goderic, former sheriff of Berkshire, and, by sent back to Constantinople to appeal for reinforcements the end of 1068 he also held the lands of Bondi the Staller from Alexius. Alexius was uninterested, however, and Hugh, in present day Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, instead of returning to Antioch to help plan the siege of Northamptonshire, and Essex. He is thought to have been Jerusalem, went back to France. There he was scorned for appointed the first Anglo-Norman High Sheriff of Berkshire. not having fulfilled his vow as a Crusader to complete a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and Pope Paschal II threatened to Following this in 1070 was the Wapentake of Appletree, excommunicate him. He joined the minor Crusade of 1101, which covered a large part of south Derbyshire, granted to but was wounded in battle with the Turks in September, and Henry on the promotion of Hugh d'Avranches to become died of his wounds in October in Tarsus. Earl of Chester. At the centre of this was Tutbury Castle where he rebuilt and founded the priory in 1080. Stephen of Blois (Theobald III33, Ermengarde of Auvergne34_) born ca 1045. Count of Blois and Count of His major landholdings, however, were those of the Anglo- Chartres, was the son of Theobald III, count of Blois, and Saxon Siward Barn, following a revolt in 1071, including Garsinde du Maine. more land in Berkshire and Essex and also Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. He married Adela of Normandy, a daughter of William the Conqueror around 1080 in Chartres. He was a key administrator in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and among the most powerful Anglo-Norman magnates. In Stephen and Adela's children were: 1086 he was a legatus ('commissioner’) on the West Midland circuit of the Domesday survey. 1. Guillaume (William) (d.1150), Count of Chartres married Agnes of Sulli (d. aft 1104) and had issue. He married Berta. Henry de Ferrieres and Berta had the 2. Theobald II, Count of Champagne following children: 3. Odo, died young. 4. Stephen, King of England 1. William31 de Ferrieres. 5. Lucia-Mahaut, married Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl 2. Maud de Ferrieres. of Chester. Both drowned on 25 November 1120. 3. Earl Robert de Ferrers was born 1083. 6. Agnes, married Hugh III of Le Puiset 7. Eléonore (d. 1147) married Raoul I of Vermandois (d. The date of Henry de Ferrers' death is uncertain, but it 1152) and had issue; they were divorced in 1142. would seem to be between 1093 and 1100. He was buried 8. Alix (d. 1145) married Renaud III of Joigni (d. 1134) in Tutbury Priory. and had issue 9. Lithuise (d. 1118) married Milo de Brai, Viscount of Andre de Vitre (Ruivallon33, Martin I34_) married Troyes (divorced 1115) Agnes of Mortain (Earl Robert32 de Mortain, 10. Henry, Bishop of Winchester Herlouin33 de Conteville, Count John34 de Bourg, Matilda of 11. Humbert, died young. Saxony35 , Duke Herman36 Billung, Billung of Stubeckeshorn37 , Count Athelbert of Sachsen38_). He had an illegitimate daughter Emma, who was the mother of William of York, archbishop of York. 2 Andre de Vitre and Agnes of Mortain had the following Baron William de Percy and Emma de Port had the children: following children: 1.
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